Emma, who was watching all this while battling the monsters, tightened the grip on her sword. A firm resolve appearing on her face.
She suddenly smiled faintly, while muttering inwardly, 'I am sorry, Ron.'
'I am sorry for not being a good mother.'
She thought inwardly as a tear drop appeared on the corner of her right eye.
She glanced towards her husband, only to notice that he was looking back at her in the eye.
She was startled for a bit but then offered a bright smile in response.
Just as she was about to move towards her husband, she sensed something.
Turning her head, she looked towards the monster horde that was ravaging the ground at a distance.
From the horde, tearing and cutting apart anything that may come in their path, were the figures of Ron and Connor.
Both of them just couldn't stand by as one's parents and the other's friends are battling for their life, and that for their sake too.
Both of them approached the battlefield where the elite team was battling the Nightmare Conductor and it's minions.
Both Frank and Emma, realizing who the presence belonged to, widened their eyes in shock.
They looked at the other fighters and realizing that they will be able to hold out for a bit longer, immediately moved towards the direction where Ron and Connor were coming from.
As they got close to each other, Emma immediately knelt down and sat beside Ron.
Ron had many things to say to her and so did she but they didn't have the time.
Emma didn't give the Ron any chance to speak and hugged him. At this time, Frank also appeared by their side and similarly hugged his wife and child as he knelt down too.
Connor just watched their interaction for a bit but wasn't able to hear what they were talking about.
He shifted his attention to the battlefield and looking at their dire circumstances, immediately grapped his hammer from his back and readied himself to join the battle.
'Emma and Frank have done enough. I have to take it from here.'
He thought, but just as he was about to charge forward, he felt a hand on his shoulder.
He didn't need to be told who the hand belonged to, as this was the same hand that was extended out to the savage him who was still loitering around in the back alleys as a child, just living by the day however he could.
Emma glanced towards Ron and then looked at Connor with a faint smile.
Understanding what she meant, Connor wanted to immediately object but then Frank explained the rationale behind their decision and also of.... their selfish request.
'Please, don't let Ron die. That will be my only request.. ' Those were the last words Emma and Frank left him as they both charged towards the Nightmare Conductor with a bloody fervor in their eyes, the all out killing intent from Emma drowning the entire battlefield under them, shooking even the Conductor.
Frank just followed his wife, adorning the same maniacal smile he used to have since a few years back as a crazy scientist.
'MOTHERRR.. FATHERR.. ' Ron shouted as tears dripped down from his blood shot eyes, a staggering amount of rage engulfing him but along with it also came that hateful sense of helplessness.
Connor holded Ron back with his arms. Ron tried to resist but wasn't able to do much in the face of the all-out strength from an General.
He shouted hysterically while also spewing curses at Connor. But Connor didn't budge.
As much as he wanted to go out there and release a massacre and protect his friends, he couldn't.
His strength wasn't enough for the task, the rationale behind Emma and Frank decision was justified, he couldn't leave Ron unprotected and not to mention...
No matter how much he tried to convince himself, he couldn't go against the final wishes of his friends... the same friends who first introduced him to a world of light.
Both Ron and Connor just stood there as they both watched Emma and Frank moving towards the Nightmare Conductor. Their speed increasing with each second.
Emma, being the current strongest of the human domain, took charge and took down a number of monsters in her path, her sword creating a mesmerizing display of beauty and cruelty at the same time.
She continued to move further, ignoring all the injuries she was sustaining while doing so.
Her eyes never flickered, and neither did her expression changed for a single instance, as she continued to accumulate more injuries by each passing second.
Soon, she arrived in the front of the Nightmare Conductor who was hiding behind his minions, with....a wide grin plastered on her face.
If Frank turned out to be a crazy scientists after the apocalypse then Emma morphed into a brainsick battle lover who loved to cut and slash monster bodies apart.
She reached out in front of the Nightmare Conductor and was about to attack with a mana infused down swing of her sword.
The creature, sensing her attack, stepped back in order to buy some time for it's servants to cover him up.
But instead of continuing with the swing, Emma stopped her momentum and pressed further.
The monster, taken off guard, reacted quickly and attacked her with it's sharp claws.
Emma, instead of stepping back, grapped the monster's leg with her left hand, which she freed from her sword.
With a wide grin on her face, she stabbed the sword into the monster's neck from above with a single hand holding her sword.
Blood erupted from the place Emma stabbed the creature.
The creature, now enraged, attacked back with its jaws. It opened it's mouth, revealing it's disgusting teeth, along with the dripping saliva.
It's shining yellow eyes now reflected it's bloodthirst.... the same bloodthirst these ferocious beasts were known for.
As the creature's jaws approached, threatening to tear Emma part, the grin on her face widened.
Grining, she sidestepped. After that, what meet the creature's bloodthirsty eyes was the figure of Frank, who had the same maniacal smile on his face, with a violent desire oozing out of him.
He throwed his left hand towards the jaws of the monster, his palm fixing itself between it's mouth.
The monster, already weakened by Emma's thrust, wasn't able to do anything and had it's mouth opened in place.
It didn't expect Emma and Frank to attack him with such a suicidal charge.
But Frank was nowhere near done.
Like a victory symbol, he launched his middle finger and index finger towards the monster.
/STAB/
The two fingers stabbed right into each of the monsters eyes.
/ROARR/
The monster roared in agony, but Frank and Emma had no intention of stopping.
'Hehe.... Don't think you can get away after what you have done.'
Both of them thought inwardly.
Frank, at this point, bended down the tip of his fingers, further cementing down them into the monsters eye sockets.
And in the next moment, he applied a larger and thicker amount of mana to his bended fingers with extreme precision, and then....
plik..squi
He scooped out the monster's eyes.
/GROOWLLLL.../
'HAHAHAHAHA... What are these eyes? They aren't like normal! How interesting!!'
The monster cried out in pain while Frank laughed in extreme delight.
/drip/
Blood came out of the from the Nightmare Conductor's eyes, it's once beautiful figure now a gruesome spectacle to behold.
The monster's cry subsided and what replaced it was an intense hatred filled glare, a glare without eyes.
Frank completely ignored the glare the monster was giving him and continued to examine the eyes which were now stuck on his fingertips.
'Should I further dismantle it? Or should I feed it to another monster? Perhaps I should keep it with myself for now... Or better yet, maybe I should just eat it!' He said out aloud with the same maniacal laugh.
/Grrrr/
The monster, who has lost his eyes, was now enraged beyond belief.
Just like the other monsters, it has now lost all sense of reason.
Emma glanced back at the battlefield behind them and narrowed her eyes.
The monsters, who were attacking the human strongholds with coordination, were now dispersing apart. Not only that, but some in fightings among their ranks could also be spotted here and there.
If things were to progress like this, the monster stampede would soon end too.
'So the source was indeed the eyes... '
She thought inwardly.
She then glanced at her husband and saw the usual crazy expression on his face she would usually see.
She just shooked her head and readied herself to face the monster once again.
But at that moment...
/STAB/
'Ah'
Emma eyes opened wide, her body trembled and her mouth was open.
With her eyes, she was seeing the figure of Frank who had his Mana heart pierced by the monster claws.
Frank, even in death, didn't bother to acknowledge the monster as he continued to analyse the eyes in his hand.
But soon, the life in him seeped out of his body as he dropped to the ground.
Even in death, Frank's gaze never left the eyes that he gouged out from the monster. He continued to look at it with intensity as his corpse was now down on the land.
Emma.. She...
/whish/
The air behaved strangely as a huge amount of Mana started to converge around her.
'You filth'
She said to the Monster with complete hatred in her eyes.
'I will make sure that your death is painful.'
She muttered under her breath.
And in the next moment, both of them clashed.